Unit 1 Genetics
Tuesday, 9/3
Wednesday, 9/4
1. General Procedures and Introduction to Class; OneNote Course Pack Uploading
Wednesday, 9/4
Thursday, 9/5
2. Genetics Vocabulary
Explain “The DNA Scientists” project
Thursday, 9/5
Friday, 9/6
3. How Do We Account for the Diversity of Species?
How Are Traits Passed from Generation to Generation?
Scientists: Darwin, Mendel, Miescher
Monday, 9/9
4. Genetics Vocabulary Quiz 1
Monday, 9/9
5. How Can You Get DNA out of a Strawberry?
Strawberry DNA Lab
Tuesday, 9/10
6. Where Are Genes Located and What Do They Do?
Scientists: Sutton, Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller
Tuesday, 9/10
Wednesday, 9/11
7. Critical Thinking Problem
Wednesday, 9/11
8. What Molecule Carries Genetic Information?
Scientists: Beadle and Tatum, Griffith, Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty,
Delbruck and Luria, Hershey and Chase
Thursday, 9/12
9. Genetics Vocabulary Quiz 2
Thursday, 9/12
Friday, 9/13
Monday, 9/16
10. What is the Structure of the DNA Molecule?
How Does DNA Replicate?
DNA Structure and Replication POGIL Activity
Scientists: Chargaff, Franklin and Wilkins, Watson and Crick, Meselson and
Stahl
HHMI Animations
Tuesday, 9/17
11. Case Study
Tuesday, 9/17
Wednesday, 9/18
12. How Do Genes Work?
Transcription POGIL Activity
Scientist: Kornberg
HHMI Animations
Wednesday, 9/18
Thursday, 9/19
13. How Are Genes Decoded?
Translation POGIL Activity
Scientists: Nirenberg and Crick (Central Dogma)
HHMI Animations
Thursday, 9/19
Friday, 9/20
14. What is Going on Inside Us to Make Our Traits?
Make Familial Hypercholesterolemia Protein
Friday, 9/20
Monday, 9/23
15. How Do Mutations Change the Structure and Function of a Protein?
Mutation POGIL Activity
Compare FHC Mutated and Normal Protein Bring a camera to class (cell
phones are ok!)
Tuesday, 9/24
16. Quiz on the DNA Scientists
Tuesday, 9/24
Wednesday, 9/25
17. How Does the Environment Affect Genes?
Are Genes Always Turned On?
Are Some of the Similarities and Differences Among Humans Caused By the
Environment?
Lactose Intolerance Videos
Creating Comic Strips
Thursday, 9/26
18. Quiz: DNA Replication and Protein Synthesis
Thursday, 9/26
Friday, 9/7
Monday, 9/30
Tuesday, 10/1
19. Videos: The Double Helix and Secret of Photo 51
You might want to read “A Twist of Fate” in Time at
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004241,00.html
Date Due
Assignments:
Monday, Sept. 9
1. General Procedures Signed and Binder Purchased
Friday, October 4
2. Questions for The Double Helix video
Tuesday, October 1
3. Part I of “The DNA Scientists” project DUE at 11:59 pm
Friday, October 11
4. Part II of “The DNA Scientists” project DUE at 11:59 pm